Starter Diagnostic (Baseline Pre)

Use this 16 question diagnostic to evaluate your students' writing, gain insight into their areas of need, and receive personalized recommendations for each student.

What does the Starter Diagnostic cover?

• Possessive nouns
• Regular, irregular, and collective plural nouns
• Capitalization
• Subject-verb agreement
• Subject and object pronouns
• Commonly confused words: your vs. you’re, there vs. their vs. they’re, it’s vs. its, & affect vs. effect

Who should take it?

• Middle or high school students who need a refresher in the basics
• Middle or high school students who are new to Quill or new to sentence combining
• Elementary school students who are learning the basics for the first time

What happens afterwards?

• You’ll get an analysis report for each student
• We’ll recommend up to ten weeks of practice activities for each student based on the results
• You can assign all the recommended activities with one click, or you can pick and choose